Analysis Of The Sicilian Girl

Transitional Organized Crime
Assignment 1: Writing a review of a documentary
The Sicilian Girl

1. The mafia is noticeably and intentionally characterized in the documentary, The Sicilian Girl, and the literature, Italian Mafia, by four defining physiognomies of longevity, organizational and cultural complexities, a claim to exercise a political dominion over their areas of settlement and a resulting ability to control legitimate markets. These four most significant, defining characteristics of the Italian Mafia are met by Rita’s ‘mafia orientated’ family in Partanna in Sicily.

A family highly involved with the mafia is known for its longevity, the length or duration of their family. This is exhibited within the documentary through the

Her newly, somewhat ‘protective’ fatherly figure, Judge Paolo Borsellino [evidentially is expected to hold a high position in the government as he is an anti-mafia magistrate], whom was the only person she could actually trust when living the last few months of her life in Rome, was murdered by a car bomb in Via D’Amelio, Palermo, shortly after the death of his colleague in government, Giovanni Falcone. The Sicilian Mafia was undoubtedly responsible for the death of these two very important magistrates, thus exploring the mafia’s remaining soverignty, government control and exertion of their own legal order. Overall, their claim to political dominion was not

Initially in the documentary, we can exhibit, before the murder of Rita’s father, a failed attempt/lack of assistance from the cops of all illegal action in Sicili. This is including murders, corruption an amalgamation of violence and the abundance of financial resources gained with illegal activities and exertion of control over local market sectors. There are two reasons for the lack of assistance of the cops;
- the first is clearly the Mafia’s superiority which comes with fear for others, and
- (the second stems from this); corruption within the legal system.

The lack of police action exerts a constant battle between law abiding citizens and crooks. Already being knowledge to Rita’s mother [and eventually the findings of Rita], the police are on the wrong side of the law. Prosecuting the Italian Mafia proves to be difficult when the evidence given by Rita leads to the arrest of an unanticipated Mafiosi. That is: the man who had been mayor of Partanna for thirty years, Vincezo Cullicchia, is evidenced as a corrupt, non-law abiding citizen and a clear crook. How can justice be served when the system lacks confidence and